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New Brunswick's Total Home Energy Savings Program is the classic audit-first design: a home energy evaluation opens the door, and incentives follow the upgrades it recommends — doors, insulation, heating, windows. In a province with real winters and a lot of older wood-frame stock, the sequence works.
Wood-frame farmhouses and village homes, many predating insulation standards entirely, alongside post-war stock in Moncton, Saint John, and Fredericton. Oil heat's long tail is still being converted out — heat pump adoption here has been among Canada's fastest.
Evaluation $99 + HST · heat pumps $400–$2,000
Register with NB Power's SaveEnergyNB, get the Home Energy Evaluation ($99 + HST covers both visits), then complete recommended upgrades within 9 months: attic insulation at $0.40–$0.85 per sq ft, air sealing $250–$550, a central ducted heat pump $1,500, windows and doors $50 each. Oil-to-heat-pump advance payments closed to new registrations June 30, 2026.
Free upgrades, household income under $70,000
Homeowners with combined household income under $70,000, whatever fuel they heat with, may get free upgrades, including energy-efficient heat pumps, insulation and ventilation. A mini-split installed through the program comes with a 10-year warranty.
announced National Heat Pump Rebate (new): Announced October 8, 2026 and expected to open early 2027: $2,000 toward an eligible cold-climate air-source heat pump, or up to $10,000 for households below the median income. Apply online, approval within 24 hours, no EnerGuide evaluation, and it can be combined with provincial rebates. Not open yet. What we know → ↗
closed Canada Greener Homes Grant & Loan: The grant closed to new applicants in February 2024; the interest-free loan (up to $40,000) stopped taking applications October 1, 2025 and its funding is fully committed. Approved applicants keep their funding — new ones can't join. ↗
live Greener Homes Affordability Program: Free direct-install retrofits (insulation, heat pumps) for low-to-median-income owners and tenants, expanded June 29, 2026 with over $500 million, delivered through provincial partners in BC, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, PEI and Quebec (Quebec's 2026–27 registration has ended), with more to be listed. You apply through your province's program, never through cold-callers. ↗
closed Oil to Heat Pump Affordability (OHPA): Closed to new applications July 31, 2026 (approved participants have until January 31, 2027 to submit receipts). It paid up to $15,000 (plus a one-time $250 payment) toward oil-to-heat-pump conversions for income-qualified households. ↗
Each city page covers 16 audit and testing services with that city's own climate, housing age and service organizations. The bar shows its houses by construction era, oldest first.
Local geology, water sources, and climate set the home-health checklist. Each item links to its full guide; the 30-second screener personalizes it to your exact house.
New Brunswick posts some of Atlantic Canada's highest radon numbers in national surveying. The winter kit belongs on every homeowner's list here.
A huge share of NB homes run on private wells — test bacteria seasonally and chemistry (including arsenic and uranium, real concerns in NB geology) every few years through the provincial route.
Remaining oil systems need annual servicing, in-date CO alarms, and honest tank inspections — insurers increasingly force the issue.
Coastal storms push water into walls that prairie homes never see — moisture diagnosis before insulation is the rule for older envelopes.
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NRCan-registered service organizations work in every province. Tell us where you are and what you're planning — we'll point you at the right door, with your province's programs flagged.